Helpless 2020 ai · Diamond Head

211 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
211
LENGTH
6:56
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5-7, and 33 more places -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HELPLESS 2020 AI · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 36, 40, 44, 72, 76, 80 and 18 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

211 bars across 23 sections: 153 keep time, 24 are fills, 6 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 118-131.

PART C
CHORUS
PART AA
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART H
12 groovesEACHAA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Helpless 2020 ai?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Helpless 2020 ai hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

211 bars, about 6:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Helpless 2020 ai?

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 36, 40, 44, 72, 76, 80 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 211 BARS ANALYSED
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